"But-" Her eyes searched his, and he seemed just a lost as she felt. Tara pulled in a breath, and closed her eyes tightly. "It will be alright," she said lowly. "Our boys will be alright."

She forced herself to take a deep breath, in through her nose, out through her mouth, and she opened her eyes again. "We'll get through this, just like everything else. Right?" Her voice dropped. "I need you to tell me it will be okay, Jax. I don't care if you lie to me, I need to hear it."

She couldn't handle it, couldn't handle that weight on her own. Not when it was added to what seemed a lifetime's worth of burdens that had fallen to her in the last six months.